What is the Best Position in Soccer for You?

The soccer field is a rather large space, and it comes with 11 different positions for the 11 players represented on the field at any given time. While exploring the different areas of the game is certainly beneficial to youngsters just getting started with the game, by your teenage years […]

Anyone expecting great change and a new shape of the English Premier League this year will have been rather disappointed by the way the action shaped up on the first weekend of the season. While there was a surprising number of away teams that got results, most of the big […]

During the pregame rituals of most sports, a sort of tribal occurrence takes place. Players begin jumping up and down, often within a tight circle, getting one another riled up and building up an intense passion for the athletic display forthcoming. But while such antics make sense in the more […]

August is progressing by smoothly and that means one thing: the major European leagues are set to begin play again, and that beckons the return of our favorite show, the English Premier League! High paced, physical, and full of entertaining action, the EPL is the world’s most popular soccer league […]

One of the difficulties in coaching youth soccer is the position of goalie. For some reason, many kids absolutely loathe the position. It seems so constricting, so limiting. The goalie stands all alone, never to score a goal, and often bearing the responsibility of keeping the team afloat. Goalies are […]

For most of the last decade of soccer in the EPL, there was a “Big 4” unit that was separate from all the rest. The famous teams of Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, and Arsenal all dominated the league and routinely earned all those vital UEFA Champions League spots in the […]

It’s no surprise that ball control is the most important skill that any youngster can master in the sport of soccer. Taking a look at some of the best players in the world like Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi also reveals the guys best equipped with the ball at their […]

Southampton FC is a soccer club currently being punished for all the wrong reasons. After a tremendous resurgence over the last five years, rising up through two leagues and all the way to an 8th place finish last season in the English Premier League, the mass exodus has commenced. A […]

One large problem in youth soccer is that players are often labeled in a position from way too early an age, limiting them to a specific role and preventing them from getting an overall feel of the game of soccer. Even at the professional level, players will sometimes experience a […]

Leading a soccer team (especially a young one) to become tough fighters and winners can be extremely hard. With so many distractions rampant throughout our modern world, many kids simply don’t care about soccer and often don’t want to try. How can a soccer coach help motivate their players and […]